Shloka 25

Adhyaya 40: Kali-yuga Lakshana, Yuga-sandhyamsha, and the Re-emergence of Dharma

Devanagari script

युगान्तेषु भविष्यन्ति स्वरक्षणपरायणाः अट्टशूला जनपदाः शिवशूलाश्चतुष्पथाः

Transliteration

yugānteṣu bhaviṣyanti svarakṣaṇaparāyaṇāḥ aṭṭaśūlā janapadāḥ śivaśūlāścatuṣpathāḥ

Translation

諸ユガの終末には、人々はひたすら自己防衛に心を奪われる。国土は三叉戟で林立し、四つ辻はシヴァの三叉戟によって標される—それは、ダルマよりも恐怖と暴力、そして防衛の警戒が支配する時代の徴である。

Word by Word

• युगान्तेषु: at the end of the yugas

• भविष्यन्ति: will come to be/will occur

• स्वरक्षण-परायणाः: devoted to self-protection/self-preservation

• अट्ट-शूला: bristling with raised tridents (aṭṭa = lifted/brandished, śūla = trident/spear)

• जनपदाः: towns, districts, settlements

• शिव-शूलाः: bearing Śiva’s trident/marked by Śiva’s śūla

• चतुष्पथाः: four-way crossroads/intersections

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya)